My fellow retards,
“In the 300 years of the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course, of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions, to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
In short, we eat our own. Many in this ecosystem point to globohomo, or inept regulators or the banks as the bad guy, yet the most damage actually comes from competing projects. If anyone was around in the bitcoin space prior to the Miami bitcoin conference wherein V announced Ethereum, you’ll know that bitcoiners would refer to ANY other project as a scam. They had a damn good track record too—until that emaciated boy got up there and started talking about a general purpose system that kept state of a machine with complex instructions, rather than a simple ledger of accounts…phon/ongod remembers reading about that event, remembers assuming Ethereum was a scam like all other projects because that was the zeitgeist on the bitcointalk forum.
It’s easy to say this or that project is a scam. Tribal affinity and opposition are survival traits. If we want crypto to flourish though, it may be best to think of us as one tribe, and to stop calling every project a scam because you disagree with their implementation details.
Some crypto projects are shit, and certainly are scams. Some are dumb, others just misguided. Many projects and founders out there are trying their best and working towards a system they believe in. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand them. There are projects phon/ongod cannot grok, but that is not enough to label them a scam.
Phon/ongod strives for a culture where projects that run on peer to peer infrastructure beat out the tech behemoths. Prosperity to our crypto competitors!
The heart of the entire movement is the desire for a world where the little guy has a chance. PhononDAO will continue to build out Phonon and peer to peer infrastructure to further these goals. Keep this perspective, and root for our compatriots, even if they are building a competing stack to our beloved project. Strong crypto is always a plus for Phonon, which lives and prospers beneath them all!
Join the Phonon DAO discord and become the soil on which crypto will thrive.
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Targets for the marketcap of PHONON DAO remain:
$1b by Q2 2022, $12b by EOY.
On the high end, $300b marketcap in 3 years.